Improvement in sap-spiles



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LfM. REED, OF TROY, OHIO.

Letters .Patent No. 85,534, dated January 5, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAP-SPILES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan: of the same.

To all 'whom it ma/y conce-rn:

' Be it knoWn that I, L'. M. REED, of Troy, in the count of Geauga, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sap-Spouts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view of the spout.

Figure 2, an end view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The nat-ure of this invention relates to a metallic sapspout, consisting of a tube constituting the spout, and aispike, whereby the spoutis secured to the tree.-

In'iig. l, A is the spout, which is a short tube made of sheet-metal. Y

B is the spike, a detached view of which is shown in Figure 3. i

The shank of said spike is triangular or three-sided, two sides being slightly curved, as shown in iig. 2L

The extreme end of the spike is provided with a spur, a, whereas the opposite end is provided with a hook, O, the purpose of which will be presently shown.

' D is a collar, which, when the spike is inserted in the tube, fits thebore, thereby filling the same as a kind of partition or diaphragm.

The hooked end of said spike is inserted 'in the tube by slightly raising the spur-end, until the hook reaches a slot in the tube, into which it is forced by depressing the end. Thehook will now project through the side of the tube, as seen in iig. l, and is therein 'fixed by solderingl The practical operation of this spout is as follows:

Ahole, atriiie larger than the diameter of the tube, is bored into the tree, in which the spike is gently driven, together with a short length of the cud of the spout, which will fit tight therein, and thereby prevent the sap from iiowing out around the spout.

In consequence of the peculiar angular character of the spike, it does not lill the hole, hence the sap will not be checked from flowing, but will ud its way out to the end of the tube through the small hole c, cut in the lower edge of the diaphragm.

To the inserted spout the sap-bucket is hung behind the hook'O, and is therefore prevented from slipping oli'. 'lhe weight of the bucket, as it draws down upon the spout, forces the spur a into the wood, which will prev ent the spout from being pulled out bythe weight of the bucket. i

This spout fully prevents the sap from sour-ing around the tube, by the exclusion of air from the hole, and is therefore well adapted to this purpose.

It is strong, durable, and easily inserted in the tree, requiring no more skill and c'are then au ordinary Wooden one.

Vhat l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is A The herein-described spout, consisting of the spike B andtube A, combined in the manner as and for the purpose set forth, as a new article of manufacture.

L. M. REED.

Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDGE & Oo., GEO. BESTER. 

